The next round of Square-Enix’s DS Style series popped on shelves yesterday with little fanfare. Most of them are portable travel guides in the Chikyuu no Arukikata DS series. I doubt anyone is going to pick up a DS guide for New York or Hawaii in Japanese. However, DS de Hajimeru: Tipness no Yoga, Square-Enix’s [...]

Square-Enix is expanding their DS Style series with Wine no Hajimekata DS, a portable guide to wine. Like other DS Style games, Wine no Hajimekata DS has a quiz mode where you can test your knowledge on wine when it comes out on November 15.
 
Also coming out in the DS Style brand is pocket gourmet [...]

When you start DS Style: Anata mo DS de Classic Kiite Mimasenka you’re taken into a room with a dog that is causally enjoying classical music in the background. In one song he is looking at a butterfly and in another the dog is snoring on the couch. The game quickly rotates through songs and [...]

Since we summed up Square-Enix’s release dates for North America here is a look at what is coming out to Japan.
 
Final Fantasy II Anniversary Edition – 06.07
Itadaki Street DS – 06.21
World Walking: Italy – 07.05
World Walking: France – 07.05
World Walking: Thailand – 07.05
Why Not Listen to Classical Music on the DS [...]

 
Square-Enix announced the first five titles in their DS Style series will be released on July 5th. The three World Walking travel guides for France, Italy and Thailand will be sold for 2,940 yen ($24) a piece. The other two titles in initial five, Why Not Listen to Classical Music on the DS and Flower [...]

So I’m starting this new internet roundtable discussion gig where editors, writers and passionate fans chat about their thoughts on everything gaming. For our first “from around the interweb” session we’re discussing DS Style. No not the jewel encrusted fashionable DS Lites. We’re talking about Square-Enix’s Touch Generations-like DS Style series. In this roundtable discussion [...]

After Nintendo’s success with the Touch Generations series more companies are developing software, not games, for the Nintendo DS. Square-Enix is the latest company to try this approach and they have a new “DS Style” brand to promote these games. There are ten titles currently in development:
 
Why Not Listen to Classical Music on the DS
Flower [...]